Omi beef from Shiga prefecture is little known outside Japan, but its butter-soft consistency and low fat content means that restaurateurs, meat producers and diners from New York to Australia are starting to take notice…

Whether it's Boeing's batteries or the beef in our burgers, paying attention to where goods originate from is vital for quality.

An abattoir in Bucharest and a battery manufacturer in Kyoto. One was the source of horsemeat which appears to have turned up in pretty much every cheap beef dish in Britain. The other was the company responsible for the…

Paper is dead, ink is drying up, the newsstand is a wasteland and the future will be backlit, animated and user-generated. That may be if you’re a tech entrepreneur riding around on your Segway in Marin Country and you’ve…

Paper is dead, ink is drying up, the newsstand is a wasteland and the future will be backlit, animated and user-generated. That may be if you’re a tech entrepreneur riding around on your Segway in Marin Country and you’ve…

Golden Week is holiday season in Japan, making this a precious time for the tourism market at home and abroad.

Today is unofficially the start of what is known in Japan as Golden Week. A string of four national holidays interspersed over seven days, it’s one of the longest periods of collective time off in the Japanese calendar. The…

Think of Gaza, and what comes immediately to mind is unlikely to be the fragrance of slow-stewed shrimp with tomato, garlic and dill, or the taste of sour plum jam on freshly home-baked bread.

Think of Gaza, and what comes immediately to mind is unlikely to be the fragrance of slow-stewed shrimp with tomato, garlic and dill, or the taste of sour plum jam on freshly home-baked bread. But journalists Laila el…